Interview with artist Claudio Parentela

              

                                   From where are you?

Italy….South Italy exactly

              What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?

Voices, faces, noises…..Fashion,underground comics…dark faces, objects,

abandoned  places…looks, tears and laughter, brawls and extreme and

twisted  passions…hands,legs, noses, eyes, mouths, shoulders, breasts,

bellies…

                Describe some of your projects

I start different and various projects all together generally…but i’ve not a

specific rule,I do not like to program anything….lastly I go around to find

abandoned places full of waste…I adore to photograph mountains of waste…

and to put on them also my weird collages...my freakish models….

I love to find the contrasts in all…even where there is no contrast in appearance.



            Your main concept

To follow  always  my changing moods ...to experiment,to experiment,

to experiment .... to reconcile the irreconcilable

what do you want to say by your art, why?

I want to express all my love for the freedom,my love for this wonderful and

terrible life.

           Tell us about your experience as  photographer what did it give you?

I'm a visual artist …for yearsI made collages, paintings, illustrations ....

switching to photography is needed ... inevitable .... I started photographing                     my collages on mountains of garbage .... photographing my strange paper       models     in dirty abandoned places,   ...... I love to photograph the water dirty my photos .... I love to stain my photos with the mud of my shoes .... I like to get in a thousand ways in the thing with my lens and to try and to invent new meanings to the things.

           Three adjectives to describe yourself.

Chaotic, immediate, anarchic, immediate, instinctive, twisted, knotty.           A film, a book and a song.

’’Salò e le 100 giornate di Sodoma’’(P.P.Pasolini),’’The Man of Jasmine and

Other Texts’’ Unica Zürn, Shirley Horn’’All My Tomorrows’’.

              What camera do you use?  lense?

My beloved NikonD40

             Tell about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.

Photography,paintings,illustrations,collages….visual poetry…mail art…..or

what?I make this wonderful’’work’’….(??..)since the far 1995….I’ve had many

shows in Italy and in other countries….made covers for cds,magazines,zines,

t-shirts…..a lot a lot of things really.



            Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?

Sure I sell prints yes…I print my photos in various professional shops.Everyone

can contact me to my e-mail:claudioparentela@gmail.com to order them.



            What was your most big success?

Oh always I love the last thing done….in  these days has been published my last

tarot deck :’’I TAROCCHI DELLA RUOTA INCROCIATA’’by ‘’Hermatena Edizioni’’

(BO-Italy)



            Favourite photographer.

oJoel-Peter Witkin.



            What is your occupation, job,  describe it.

I’m and i’ll be for the rest of my life a visual artist…sure, this is the wonderful

‘’work’’I do….

Other interests….photography….photography&photography.

          Which advice would you give someone who wants to become an artist or photographer?

To be free …always to be free.

Your plans.

keep doing what I like….

Interview with photographer Anna Malgina

From where are you?

I am from Russia (born in Sochi, studied in St.Petersburg, worked in Moscow), but now I am living in Italy.

What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?  

Now my main attractive thing is my family. My son and my husband. Also I am inspired by new countries, new places. I really like to travel and I try to create a photo story from each trip. 

Describe some of your projects

In my professional life I am focus on researching soviet 'new wave cinema' of the 60s...probably that's why as a film historian I try to create the atmosphere of my favourite films. Once I made a project dedicated to Jean Cocteau and his first movie Le Sang d'un poète.  

Your main concept

Do what you feel to do.

Tell us about your experience as  photographer what did it give you?

It makes me happy, that’s all. 

Three adjectives to describe yourself.

Curious, fast, demanding

A film, a book and a song

Teorema (P.P. Pasolini)

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Luigi Pirandello)

Four women (Nina Simone)

What camera do you use?  Lense?

I use a lot of analog cameras with different lenses. Now I am discovering middle format and exploring Rolleycord. Also I use Nikon em, Kiev-8, Practika. And I like to do some experimental shot with my broken cameras (Fed-3, Zenit 122) and the old expired films. I notice that with my film camera I can do beautiful mistakes. 

Tell about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.

I had a few group exhibitions and three personal. Two in Russia, and one in Italy. 

Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?

Yes I do. I print my photos on Fine Art paper. If you want something to buy just contact me at animalguina@gmail.com

What was your most big success? 

A personal exhibition in Italy.

Favourite photographer.

I have a lot. My recent favorites are Luigi Ghirri, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton

What is your occupation, job, interest besides photography. describe it.

I am a film historian, I am writing a book about soviet “new wave” cinema. Besides I am a mum, a wife and a curios traveller.

Which advice would you give someone who wants to become a (professional) photographer?

For my experience of becoming a photographer was important to watch a lot of films, especially silent classics. But  I think it’s too much. Just feel what you want to shot, and do it!

Your plans.

To make my first photobook and to do photo projects with my family.

Interview with photographer Nadia Maria

From where are you?
I'm from Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil.What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?  
       
Describe some of your projects
My projects are all internal dialogues with my solitude. They are reflections of everything that I construct and deconstruct in myself. Each one speaks of a phase of my life, in moments that I felt the necessity of a conclusion or liberation of what happened to me.
Your main concept
What do you want to say by your art, why?

The poetry. I think my thoughts about my personal experiences, the coexistence with my children, and to see the world always from three different angles.
Time and transformation, the invisible unknown.
Maybe the reverse question, what does my art want to say to you and why?

Tell us about your experience as  photographer what did it give you?
I started to photograph at the age of 7, using my dolls, building stories, deconstructing impossibilities ... And photography became an extension of my reflections...
Three adjectives to describe yourself.
Profound, Feminine, Nocturnal 
A film, a book and a song
Zerkalo – Andrei Tarkovsky
Ariel – Sylvia Plath
Ballade No.4, Op.52 – F. Chopin
What camera do you use?  lense?
Several, digital I like Nikon. But I use analog canon, Nikon, Zenith, Yashica Mat, and others. 35mm, 60mm, 24-70mm, mostly.
Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
My works of art are available in limited edition for collectors, signed and numbered at The Print Atelier (Montreal), also through Art + Commerce and PhotoVogue, or by myself (nadiamphoto@gmail.com)
What was your most big success? 
Motherhood, to receive my children in my life.
Favourite photographer.
Masao Yamamoto
What is your occupation, job, interest besides photography. describe it.
I live from photography and art, it's my job, my hobby, my interest, my life.
           
Which advice would you give someone who wants to become a (professional) photographer?
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." (C. Jung) ;)
Your plans.
A book, a house, a garden, a photo lab.